时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:2017年Scientific American(二)月


英语课

 


It turns out the best looking thing on a man may be a good-looking woman. 


Researchers report that women find a man they see with an attractive woman more desirable than unattached men. That’s according to a study in the journal Evolutionary 1 Psychology 2. [Christopher D. Rodeheffer, Randi P. Proffitt Leyva and Sarah E. Hill, Attractive Female Romantic Partners Provide a Proxy 3 for Unobservable Male Qualities: The When and Why Behind Human Female Mate Choice Copying]


Researchers had two groups of female college students rate photos of men—all of whom had first been rated as being of average attractiveness. The first group of 148 women was shown pictures of those men with an attractive female. The subjects were told that the women in the photos were either a girlfriend, ex-girlfriend, cousin or adopted sister. And the subjects rated the men with the girlfriends as more desirable than the men shown with partners described as being exes or relatives.  


The second study group of 97 students were shown average looking men with an attractive woman who was described as definitely a girlfriend. And again the women rated the men with the good-looking gals 4 as more desirable than the single guys. Plus, the attached men were thought more likely to be more intelligent, trustworthy, humorous, wealthy and attentive 5


Researchers deduced that the women probably assume partnered-up men must have those qualities of smarts and personality to be an appropriate match for a good-looking mate. 


So, turns out that what many of us always suspected may be true—men look better when they’re a proven commodity.


—Erika Beras



adj.进化的;演化的,演变的;[生]进化论的
  • Life has its own evolutionary process.生命有其自身的进化过程。
  • These are fascinating questions to be resolved by the evolutionary studies of plants.这些十分吸引人的问题将在研究植物进化过程中得以解决。
n.心理,心理学,心理状态
  • She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
  • He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。
n.代理权,代表权;(对代理人的)委托书;代理人
  • You may appoint a proxy to vote for you.你可以委托他人代你投票。
  • We enclose a form of proxy for use at the Annual General Meeting.我们附上委任年度大会代表的表格。
abbr.gallons (复数)加仑(液量单位)n.女孩,少女( gal的名词复数 )
  • Jim came skipping out at the gate with a tin pail, and singing Buffalo Gals. 这时,吉姆手里提着一个锡皮桶,嘴中唱着“布法罗的女娃们”蹦蹦跳跳地从大门口跑出来。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
  • An' dey thinks dey wants mousy lil gals wid bird's tastes an' no sense at all. 他们想要的是耗子般的小姑娘,胃口小得像雀子,一点儿见识也没有。 来自飘(部分)
adj.注意的,专心的;关心(别人)的,殷勤的
  • She was very attentive to her guests.她对客人招待得十分周到。
  • The speaker likes to have an attentive audience.演讲者喜欢注意力集中的听众。
学英语单词
accessory nucleus of oculomotor nerve
Adzope
all-the-year-round housing
All-trans
anna-julia-cooper
Antaeus
anthotaxies
anti-clinkering box
arabe
arteriectasias
barred core
Bedouaram
biorbital angle
bob haircuts
bractavine
break alarm
Calcaneocuboidal
cast tow
cast-in-place concrete pile rig
catalytic hydrodesulfurization
chamber cooling
combinatorist
consent agreement
continuation pointer
cucumis
cuspidaria japonica
decoration project
detrital coal
Diodon holocanthus
Dominus vobiscum
drownest
dutch oven furnace
elsford
emergency allocation scheme
emergency pressurization
enjera
fatigue crack tip
filament rayon yarn
firey
frolickers
front silvered mirror
fuel inlet needle valve
fused cement
g-actin molecule
girly girl
golden monkey
granulosacell carcinoma
gris
gyro erected optical navigation
hot-blast temperature
ice store
insoral
interface logic design
Liang, Pulau
Lord knows
MACROPOIDAE
microgenetic
morbid mitosis (darlington & thomas 1941)
Nowa Karczma
nyses
odontosoria gracilis
of new
oprah-like
palato-ethmoidal suture
pearlitic grain
peccatiphobia
pertaining to
photoelastic test installation
photoelectric chopper
plicae alares
power dispatching of hydropower plant
power magnetic amplifier
probit test
Promyshlennyy
pseudocoxitis
pyrinuron
quadrangular jar
quercite
radiant heat zone
radiator bottom plate
raised-shoulder breathing
referentials
rules of thumb in forcasing of fog
rusticization
safety angle
Saurol
selective code
slave program prefix
space travelling
special classroom
spheroidal decomposition
student teachers
supratonsillar fossa
terminal access network
test squadron
trip interchange model
under-commutation
unhaunting
upward conveyer
urocitral
Wi-Fi finder
xanthoangelol